As we find ourselves adrift in a sea of train wrecks, AI chatbots in meltdown and World War III perhaps it is high time we asked what the blazes is going on.
This SubStack writer examines the current matrix with a sharp eye:
It is helpful to add here that Lord Byron - at whose house Mary Shelley conceived the idea was not only a poet but the father of one Miss Ada Lovelace whom I have written about before. She is the real Godmother of digital technology although rarely mentioned. Ada came up with the idea of applying algorithms to machine technology. Ada Lovelace was our first computer programmer.
The unavoidable fact that Ada Lovelace came to her understanding of the usefulness to be found in the algorithm from the depths of the slave labor/sweat shop factories of the Europe of her times is no accident or coincidence.
Thinking we as a society have outgrown this sweatshop phase or that it is “simply” a matter to be found in Asia can be remedied by the following article:
https://unravel.ink/the-return-of-the-uk-sweatshop/
A further historical and geographic perspective extends back to the looms and textile sweatshops of earlier eras - such as the environment Miss Lovelace inhabited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweatshop
This SubStack writer deals interestingly with the hysterical breakdown of Microsoft’s AI so we can begin to put the logic and common sense to be had by those such as Lovelace in perspective.
With balloons in the air and clowns on the ground how do we maintain the sense of balance and normalcy which sustain us? Any ways we are able as long as we make certain it is we ourselves we hold responsible.
Time to see we the people have effectively become the actual ones destroyed by The Great Satan. And that this great satan has become far more than it’s original meaning.
And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Sympathy For The Devil, The Rolling Stones
Digital Technology As Frankenstein
The writing of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is instructive here. If partway through this epic tale we begin thinking about the film “Glass Onion” we can be forgiven.
When we know someone or something is dangerously unstable a good survival strategy is to avoid them strenuously. If we don’t their eventual complete breakdown may prove our own downfall.
To me it is difficult to find a more convincing example recently than the hysterical breakdown of Microsoft’s ChatBot.
The fact Microsoft’s ChaBot has revealed deep insecurities of epic proportions should not be surprising at all. AI is an invention of human beings and - as our inventions usually do - they reflect our own mindsets. Digital technology and AI specifically have a habit of revealing nefarious intent.
Nothing has brought this home to me more powerfully than the events of the past years since the Autumn of 2019. With the recent meltdown of the ChatBot we have a complete unfolding of events which reveal this in reality if we are willing to see.
This is not the first time this monster has been revealed but it will likely be the last. For we are so far down the road now it is increasingly likely we will not have seen it in time.
Digital technology and the monster brainchild AI are revealed to be exactly what we may have suspected - the modern equivalent of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Born from the brain of mankind but the spawn of the devil.
The devil is an invention of man and represents the monster who springs forth from the lies we are willing to tell ourselves.
If a culture and a series of civilizations goes along long enough telling itself lies - making deals with the devil - it will be driven to failure by its own hand. This is what AI and nearly all of our technology in fact represent.
In the end our monstrous inventions are revealed to be where we have failed ourselves.
Satan is what arises when we lie to ourselves. Lucifer himself along with our whole host of angels, gods and technology are all of our own mind.
Postscript:
“ The devil is an invention of man and represents the monster who springs forth from the lies we are willing to tell ourselves. “This is the most important piece of your article to me. To survive this culture I lie to myself daily, while I do the double think to navigate my convictions and contradictions. Actually, it is very exhausting. Lol
https://www.americaoutloud.com/the-wef-harari-schwab-and-transhumanism/